Eat my Thoughts

Surely the lies people use to defend Pauline Hanson have stretched beyond breaking point.

In the wake of idiotic statements about immigration, the Great Barrier Reef, the dangers of vaccines and her laughable taxation policy, Hanson supporter inevitably reply that at least she calls things how she sees them and you can actually trust her.

But can you?

This year she has come out strongly in favour of the government’s irresponsible tax cuts for the rich, then announced her party would not support them (losing a senator as a result) before supporting them anyway. How can anyone watching say that her word is any more trustworthy than those of her supposedly 'more deceitful' parliamentary colleagues.

​An even bigger and more harmful lie that is perpetuated by facile commercial media is her claim that she stands for battlers and low-income families.

The long drawn out by-elections are nearly upon us.Super Saturday!Seriously, could I be less excited about anything in my life?Considering how close it is to the next election, would it have really hurt to leave those seats vacant for a few more months and just contest them as part of the general election?I know we can’t do that, but it does seem an awful fuss about nothing, not to mention a terrible waste of time and money for the people involved. ​Despite what we will be told by people whose job it is to scrutinise the minutiae of daily political developments in Canberra, A poor showing by Labor does little more than increase the Coalition’s wafer-thin majority. But a stronger majority doesn’t make it any easier to pass legislation than a small one.